Letter to the editor: Until these students fully comprehend what viewpoint diversity means and can allow it to exist, UW-Madison could provide safe spaces for closet conservatives who are afraid to speak out, along with employing security for invited speakers who are perceived as right-wingers.
Letter to the editor: The turnout in student wards on UW campuses was unusually high for a spring election. And the winning candidate, Janet Protasiewicz, received the vast majority of the student vote.
L.A. Times columnist: Back in 2015, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker tried to burnish his culture warrior cred in advance of a bid for the presidency by targeting UW-Madison and other University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Walker cut the state university’s budget. His hand-picked UW Board of Regents gutted tenure protections for its faculty.
That’s OK, because Madison’s economy isn’t dominated by state government and UW-Madison the way it used to be. Technology companies such as Epic Systems and Exact Sciences employ thousands of young professionals, many of whom live Downtown.
Letter to the editor: People are not born with hate. They are taught to hate. To counteract this, we should be teaching compassion and empathy through engagement and education. We need to get out of our silos and open our ears and hearts for one another. We must unite to fight our true enemies — fear, anger and hate.
Guest column authored by Nathan Kalmoe, executive cirector of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, Michael W. Wagner, professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and faculty director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, and Dhavan Shah, Maier-Bascom professor and research director of the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, all of UW-Madison.
Following racist video on campus, The Badger Herald Editorial Board extends support to Black community, calls on UW to undertake anti-racist efforts.
Letter to the editor: This incident demonstrates that these professionals are necessary.
Letter to the editor: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is wrong about wanting to remove budget support from UW programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Guest column by Anthony Hernandez, a teaching faculty in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the Scholar Strategy Network.
Unfortunately, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, decided last week to declare war on these programs. Vos’s timing could not have been worse, and his thinking could not have been more wrongheaded.
Column by Susan Webb Yackee, professor of public affairs and director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
For one, when vetting the text of the RSO Outreach emails, UW should consider whether it is misleading. The Badger Catholic email was vague and did not make clear the hateful content of Zember’s message. When this is the case, UW should send out a supplemental email with more context about controversial speakers, including resources and community spaces to better prepare and support students in the face of hateful speech.
Written by Allie Boldt, Legal Research Director for the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The crowd sheltered by a tent overlooking a UW-Madison construction site included some of computing’s more familiar names.
Yet, not unlike Ron DeSantis and Disney, a cluster of outspoken Republican legislators continue to use the UW System — UW-Madison in particular — as a whipping boy. They are led by state Sen. Steve Nass of Whitewater, who uses his post as chair or the Senate’s Education Committee as a bully pulpit to keep threats of funding cuts and faculty and student discipline hanging ominously in the air.
Back in 2015, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker thought to burnish his culture warrior cred in advance of a bid for the presidency by taking arms against the University of Wisconsin. Walker cut the state university’s budget. His hand-picked board of regents gutted tenure protections for its faculty.
In Wisconsin, an independent consultant (TPI-US) has been awarded a contract to conduct a statewide literacy “landscape analysis” in which all 13 of the University of Wisconsin educator preparation programs could voluntarily opt-in for a comprehensive review of early literacy instructional practices. Each institution would receive a “confidential no-cost assessment of reading coursework quality and how well course instructors model evidence-based early reading instructional practices” and “where appropriate, institutional reports will offer specific recommendations for improvement.”
Column authored by Gottwald, the director of licensing at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in Madison.
UW’s new major program has potential to benefit students from all backgrounds, areas of study.
The line is attributed to Teddy Roosevelt, but Chris McIntosh has heard it plenty of times over the years from a different source. It sometimes is directed toward one of his three children; other times, it’s aimed at the University of Wisconsin athletic director himself.
“A wise person once told me that comparison is the thief of joy, and that wise person is my wife, Deann,” McIntosh said. “And it’s a lesson that she has preached to everyone in our household.”
It was interesting to read the April 20 article about a study that found Wisconsin’s support for state universities ranks 43rd in the nation.
To supplement systemic changes to campus mental health resources, mental health days can offer immediate support.
There’s just one problem with the dystopian fantasy that our Republican friends are perpetuating: It neglects the reality on campuses across the state.Anyone who pays attention to the discourse at the state’s colleges and universities knows that differences of opinions are frequently aired. Students and faculty members of varying political and ideological stripes are heard on a wide range of issues. And event planners welcome right-wing commentators such as Matt Walsh, who appeared on the UW-Madison campus last fall.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, the 30th head of the University of Wisconsin, is undoubtedly brilliant.
The former dean of the UCLA School of Law has an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a law degree from Yale and a Ph.D. in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. That, by any measure, is an impressive resume.
When Ronald Reagan ran for a second term in 1984, he was 73 years old—and, at that time, the oldest presidential candidate in U.S. history.
Allison M. Prasch is assistant professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She studies U.S. presidential rhetoric.
Nowhere in the world of corporate capitalism do underlings sit on the interview committees to hire their next boss. Logan Roy’s administrative assistant is not normally invited into the boardroom to help choose the next CEO in the world of HBO’s Succession. Mere mortals are not given a voice about whether Hawk Girl should be added to the team of superheroes that make up the Justice League—and perhaps rightly so. (Russ Castronovo and Elijah Levine)
Greg Nemet continues the tradition of environmental scholarship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison through the La Follette School of Public Affairs, studying energy, climate change and public policy. He says despite a gloomy international report, the capacity to tackle problems has never been greater:
“If there were ever a time to have optimism about our collective capacity and will to address climate change, this is it. This idea was threaded through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which emphasized that we can still effect transformational change that could stave off the worst possible outcomes and lead to a sustainable, equitable world. Globally, we’ve made considerable progress in a broad range of technologies that are making the transition to a low-carbon economy more affordable and feasible than ever.”
For example, the University of Wisconsin has been awarded a $5 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a system that can detect and “strategically correct” what the government perceives as misinformation relating to COVID, elections, and vaccines. This new grant adds to the previous $7.5 million grant awarded by the NSF to ten universities to develop anti-misinformation tools as part of the “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems” initiative.
April 11-17 marks Black Maternal Health Week, a week-long campaign officially recognized by the Biden administration as a time to address racial inequities in Black maternal health and to “amplify the voices, perspectives and lived experiences” of Black during pregnancy.
–Tiffany L. Green, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of any institutions or organizations.
Letter to the editor: In college, I worked for two years as a student animal caretaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Harlow Primate Laboratory.
The university should be prioritizing students rather than putting more money in the pockets of already wealthy faculty. If we are increasing tuition, it should first go to providing better education services that would further the success of students.
Written by Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
After 60 years of deliberate indifference to the right to counsel, our criminal justice system is on the verge of collapse. Only a large, overdue investment can save it and restore the noble ideal that justice shouldn’t be based on how much you can afford. –John P. Gross is a clinical associate professor at University of Wisconsin Law School and director of the Public Defender Project.
NIL exposes underlying inequality between men’s and women’s sports, but this is something we can try to fix.
Letter to the editor: I wish there was an easy fix to this growing spirit of meanness, but I suspect it’s a microcosm of the larger culture. Perhaps sportsmanship should be added to the public and private school curriculum?
Letter to the editor: How much will be saved in the System budget by closing the UW-Platteville Richland campus? How much will be lost to Richland County and the region? What is lost economically and socially if would-be-first-generation college students from rural areas and small towns opt out of higher education altogether?
Mr. Walker reportedly attempted to cut phrases like “the search for truth” and “public service” — as well as a call to improve “the human condition” — from the University of Wisconsin’s official mission statement. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s attack on academic freedom in Florida that has captivated the national press, alongside his preference for vocational classes, is from the same playbook.
Republican vote to strike down infrastructure spending package to have large implications for UW-Madison, UW System
Written by Manuel P. Teodoro, an associate professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Teodoro studies water sector management, regulation, and finance.
By , deputy graphics director for Opinion. He went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It is unclear if Congress has the constitutional authority to require the court to allow cameras. What is clear is that it has costs as well as benefits. Because the court’s support is fragile, broad institutional changes should occur incrementally and with sufficient analysis. If Congress is serious about this issue, it should commission further research to examine the consequences before it takes action.
-Mr. Owens is a professor of American politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Black is a professor of political science at Michigan State University.
Letter to the editor: In short, they are champions because they embody all of the selfless yet competitive characteristics that puts the team ahead of the individual, raising up all of them.
If the EPA followed these recommendations, some studies estimate that the number of lives saved per year would increase to 20,000. That estimate climbs even as high as 53,000 nationwide, according to a 2022 study conducted by the University of Wisconsin, with 150 of those in Wisconsin alone.
New UW Health fellowship points to need for more specialized providers.
The recent decision by the UW System president to end in-person instruction at UW-Richland should concern every Wisconsinite. Not specifically because of its impact on the Richland Center community, but because of the way decisions are being made about our taxpayer-funded universities without public input.
Letter to the editor: But you know what could really help save the floundering hockey program and energize the crowd One word: Beer.
Increased sexual assault reports bring to light impacts of advocacy, need for further education on underlying power structures.
Letter to the editor: In the Feb. 24 story “Plan aims to revitalize the west side of campus,” UW-Madison strategic initiatives director for finance and administration Paul Seitz stated, “There really is no sense of place and no sense of being.”
Column by Neil Kraus, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
Column co-authored by Steph Tai, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and teaches administrative law, environmental law and advanced contracts.
We write this piece in support of our fellow Big Ten students. We write this in honor of Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner and Arielle Anderson as well as those injured — in support of their families, friends, classmates and educators.
Letter to the editor from Mladenoff, professor emeritus of forest ecology at UW-Madison who researched forest ecosystems, including disturbance, management, biodiversity, climate change, bioenergy and history.
A Jan. 26 Cap Times article (“UW-Madison launches new center to confront its history of exclusion”) spotlighted the UW-Madison’s announcement that a planned new Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History intends to expand on sifting, winnowing and reckoning by confronting the university’s “long culture of exclusion, racism and religious bigotry.”
Last May, Rebecca Blank was discussing what she regarded as the major unresolved issues she would leave behind at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Muir, the UW alum who inspired President Teddy Roosevelt to create the national park system and is credited with founding environmentalism, was discovered to be a racist who disparaged native Americans and Negroes as “dirty and lazy.” He founded the Sierra Club in 1892, serving as its president until he died in 1914, but during all that time only whites could be admitted as members.
First, graduate assistant unions have been around for more than 50 years, starting with the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966. The TAA has engaged in collective bargaining since 1969, so the movement is hardly a “nascent” one.
According to U.S. News rankings, the UW-Madison Law School is ranked No. 43 in the nation. That’s candidate Everett Mitchell’s alma mater. Farther down the list is Marquette University Law School, ranked No. 105 — that’s where Janet Protasiewicz graduated. Both Daniel Kelly and Jennifer Dorow list Regent University as their law school. It ranks considerably lower, at No. 142 nationally.
New permanent project expands Sifting & Reckoning exhibit, provides history but fails to address future.
If AI that doesn’t really understand medicine (or much of anything else) can pass the test for being a doctor, then we need to change what we teach doctors—and everyone else. – David Williamson Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Data Philosopher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
